April 2008 - Posts
WROX , one of the .NET community's best friends over the years, has started a new line of eBooks called WROX BLOX. I like the idea of publishing in an eBook format, because you can buy just the part of the book you really want and it give authors the
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OK, so this is a little more than a week. Sorry I have been very busy since getting back from Seattle. I think a lot of the Bloggers out there have been busy too, but still there are some great gems that I found over the last 10 days or so. Rules for
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I was fortunate that my schedule changed slightly just before the MVP Summit. This gave me the opportunity to stay a few more days for the Alt.Net conference. I have to admit that I was not really sure what to expect and had some preconceived notions
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I have been using Vista on both of my primary machines pretty much since day 1, and there have been some funny issues. Service Pack 1 is finally out and I have been a little hesitant to do the upgrade, mostly because I have been in the middle of a few
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Thursday afternoon my first Microsoft Global MVP Summit officially came to an end, sadly. But that did not mean the experience ended. Even now I am still in Seattle on Saturday, taking a few moments out of my time at the Alt.net conference to document
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This is a really fun week for me at the MVP Summit. But I am gathering a lot of great URLs to reference. PowerShell Provider for Creating IIS Websites, AppPools, etc. OpenID for ASP.NET , How to Add OpenId to ASP.NET New IIS Support Team Blog Mine Sweeper
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I recently got a copy of my friend Scott Forsyth's IIS 7 book from WROX. The book has 6 authors and covers just about everything you need to know about IIS 7. I have examined a few IIS 7 books and have played a little with IIS 7 so far. Professional IIS
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You may get this the first time you try to execute an ASP.NET site on a Windows XP installation of IIS 5.1 The error will point you to a Microsoft Knowledge Base article to solve the Failed to Access IIS Metabase error that instructs you to use a Metaacl.vbs
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Developing applications that work across the Internet requires knowledge of protocols. To actually debug any communications or protocol errors you need to be aware of status codes. For the web you need to know and understand http Status codes and in our
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I get this question all the time and if you happen to attend one of my presentations on using each you should know by the end of the presentation. I also see this asked often on the ASP.NET forums and I thought it would be worthwhile to address the question
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Getting this posted before I head to Seattle for the MVP Summit. I am so stoked about this trip. Peter Ludauti shows how to customize the PaperClip Theme - This is a great article for Community Server users. How to rename Multiple Files at Once - Oh man
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This will be my first MVP Summit and I am so excited. I have never been in Washington, much less the Microsoft Campus, and I love to travel! In fact over the course of this week I will be in at least a dozen states. I have a pretty busy schedule planned
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I had a great time at the Boston Code camp with hundreds of great New England developers. I was able to give two of my current presentations, httpModules and httpHandlers and Front-End Performance tips. I had lots of great questions and banter with the
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This was a question that was raised in my Front-End Performance presentation yesterday and I honestly did not know. So I came home last night and did a quick test by setting an OutputDirective on a page for 60 seconds. <%@ OutputCache Duration="60"
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It has been a very busy week and I have a lot of links to share. Stored Procs as an API - As part of the debate that has erupted from my Things I Hate about .NET post 7 Tricks Web Designers Don't Know - This goes to my 'Mom' rule and the Why Software
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I finally got everything confirmed and I will be speaking at the Boston Code Camp in the morning. I will be doing my httpHandlers and httpModules presentation that I gave in Philly last September and on GeekSpeak . I have a few more examples to pull from
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First, wow, I never ever dreamed pushing that publish button on something I wrote in about 20 minutes would get so much play! Thanks for all who shared their opinions, I enjoyed them all. Please feel free to share more, I think this is such a good discussion
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